linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.26] isofs: fix minor filesystem corruption, take 2

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:23:23 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Adam Greenblatt <adam.greenblatt@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jack@....cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.26] isofs: fix minor filesystem corruption, take 2

Hi Adam,

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 22:18 -1000, Adam Greenblatt wrote:
> Some iso9660 images contain files with rockridge data that is either 
> incorrect or
> incompletely parsed.  Prior to commit 
> f2966632a134e865db3c819346a1dc7d96e05309,
> (included with kernel 2.6.13) the kernel ignored the rockridge data for 
> these files,
> while still allowing the files to be accessed under their non-rockridge 
> names.  That
> commit inadvertently changed things so that files with invalid rockridge 
> data could
> not be accessed  at all.  (I ran across the problem when comparing some 
> old CDs with
> hard disk copies I had made long ago under kernel 2.4: a few of the 
> files on the hard
> disk copies were no longer visible on the CDs.)
> 
> This change reverts to the pre-2.6.13 behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Greenblatt <adam.greenblatt@...il.com>
> ---
> Pekka Enberg correctly pointed out that there was a similar change made to
> parse_rock_ridge_inode_internal() that should also be reverted.  Please 
> ignore
> my previous patch, and use this patch instead.  Thanks Pekka!

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

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